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Stewart Perrie
4:41, 08 July 2021 BST
Jacinda Ardern has broken ranks with some of her international counterparts and declared New Zealand is not going to learn to live with the pandemic.
Many leaders and health officials have urged against the idea of zero cases of coronavirus and insisted it will essentially be like the flu in the coming years.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced plans to scrap social distancing rules on July 19.
While many welcomed the move, the PM said Britain had to learn to live with Covid-19 and warned we could soon be seeing up to 50,000 cases a day and more deaths.